Bokeh Dance

Bokeh is defined as 'the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, present in out-of-focus areas of a photograph'. 

I've always had a fascination for those soft circles of light in the background and the effect and mood they lend to a photo. 

I learnt that it is the aperture that helps determine what the bokeh will look like and chanced upon the right combination of camera settings for me while clicking these pictures of bamboo. I managed to get a crick in the neck as well, standing there with my head bent back for goodness knows how long. But I didn't mind, as I was happy with what I got for my trouble.

This one is a picture of the leaves of a bottlebrush tree.

A walk under the trees in a wood

I had penned a small poem some time ago that I think goes with this image very well-

 A walk under the trees in a wood,
"Pray, what good will it do?" Why, look around,
the ground is littered with leaves, the earth is soft under the feet,
high above the green boughs meet, and the sun filters through,
leaving dancing spots of sunlight on you. The birds and insects call,
pitter-patter on the leaves the seeds fall,
and all around is the cool and drowsy breeze of the afternoon, whispering of surprises waiting to be discovered.
What good you say? But what better way,
to get a feel of green earth's good magic,
than a walk under the trees in a wood?
 

Stills of Beauty

Nature is always alive with movement and life, ever changing, never still.

The best a photograph can do is capture a single moment, freeze a small slice of time.

That maybe a photograph's limitation, but it is more than enough to get a sense of the breathtaking loveliness of nature and record a unique but fleeting moment of beauty forever.

(ok, maybe not forever. After all, a photo can get deleted, destroyed by a malicious virus, faded by old age, spoilt by water, torn by kids, thrown in the trash, and....anything else? You see, lots of horrible things can happen to prevent it from lasting forever, but I think you get the idea. :))

 

 

                               

Silhouettes

These are photos of my brothers as they jumped against a background of an open balcony door. We were experimenting with the different kinds of jumps that they could do. I had taken about a hundred pictures of which only two or three were any good. It is little hard to capture the right moment and the majority of the pictures were clicked either too soon or too late. But I was lucky and found these two good ones among the others!

Light paintings

I really like making light paintings because it is so simple and lots of fun. All you have to do is shake the camera and you can experiment with the settings to get different effects.
The ones above were taken by me and the ones below by my younger brother Dinkar. I think the ones he took are beautiful. I have no idea how they came like that and he doesn't either!

Heart on the mat

One morning I noticed a very interesting thing. The sun fell through a break in the roof tiles on the front door mat in the shape of a heart! I've still not been able to figure out exactly how it happened. The shape of the hole was nothing like this. Strange, right?

Paper Lantern

Pictures of a paper lantern lit up from the inside.

Leaves of light

The sun shining through the red and green leaves of the badam tree

Pink Light

The light of the sun pouring through the thin petals of pink bouganvilla flowers

Candlelight

Two candles lit to dispel the darkness during a power cut.

An Early Morning Walk

The early morning sun casting long shadows.

Drops of dew hanging from a bamboo shoot.


The sun was shining on this twig, making the drops sparkle.

Blue sky.

The blue sky filled with clouds that look like puffs of cotton.

Shadows

My mother was reading and light was coming in from the window on the side. I liked the silhouette it made.

The shadow of a few leaves. They look like a shadow waterfall.

The trunk of a palm tree with the shadow of its leaves.